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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 284

promise of any reward or gift directly or indirectly from
any person interested in any contract, purchase or sale
made on the recommendation of said board, and every
member of said board and every officer, member of the
staff or employee of Patuxent Institution shall make
report to said board of all such offenses coming to his
knowledge,

(2)   No member of said board, or of the advisory
board hereinafter created, or any officer, member of the
staff or employee of Patuxent Institution, shall accept
any reward or gift, or any promise of reward or gift,
from any inmate in said Institution, or from anyone on
his behalf, or shall receive any devise or bequest, or
any promise of devise or bequest, from any such inmate,
or from any person on his behalf, or shall enter into any
contract with such inmate, or with any person on his
behalf. All such gifts, rewards, bequests, devises,
promises and contracts shall be void.

(3)     Any violation of the provisions of this
subsection shall be sufficient cause, in the case of a
member of said board or officer of Patuxent Institution,
for removal from office, and in the case of any other
employee of the Institution for his dismissal.]

2.

(A)    The director [shall be] IS the chief
administrative officer of the Patuxent Institution, and
shall be a trained, able and competent psychiatrist with
at least five years' experience in the practice or
teaching of psychiatry. The director holding office at
the time of the passage of this section shall continue to
hold office at the pleasure of the Secretary of Public
Safety and Correctional Services. Any successor as
director shall be appointed by the Secretary of Public
Safety and Correctional Services from a list of three
nominees proposed to the Secretary by a special committee
composed of the professor of psychiatry at the Medical
School of the University of Maryland, the professor of
psychiatry of the Medical School of the Johns Hopkins
University, the deputy secretary for correctional
services, and the chairman of the board of Patuxent
Institution. The Secretary may reject any list of three
nominees and request another list. Three members of
[said] THE special committee [shall be empowered], in the
absence of the full committee [to] MAY act for the
committee. The director shall receive a salary as fixed
in the budget, which shall not be less than [fifteen
thousand dollars ($15,000.00)] $15,000 annually.

(B)         SUBJECT TO THE AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF
PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, THE DIRECTOR HAS